The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-10
THEY DISLIKE OUR FOOD.
Daintios Popular With Civilized Peopl
Rejected by MANY Suyare Trihes

Dainties Popular With Civilized People
Rejected By Many Savage Tribes.
Mr.. Wallace says that among some of the
Pacific islanders hens eggs arc saved to sell
to ships, but are neyGr eaten by the natives.
Strawberries and raspberries are found III
some tropical regions, but they arc never
eaten, ami in fact, are hardly worth picking,
as they are poor, almost tasteless things.
The Esquimaux generally dislike all the
preparations of vegetables that the explorers
bring among them. They think it is per-
verted appetite that Graves anything but
meat.
The natives of New Guinea, cook few &C.
reals III their own fashion, but they made very
wry faces when they attempted to eat some
fresh baked biscuits that the missionaries
gave them. They finally wrapped their bis
cults up in paper, intending TO keep them
curiosties.
Many savage tribes think eggs are wholly
unfit for food. They keep fowls that very
much like our own, and sometimes chickens
are almost their sole animal food, but they
never dreamed that anybody could get hun
cry enough to eat eggs until ehey saw the
missionaries eat them.
The same tribes that are astounded at some
of the articles white men put into their stom-
achs very likely eat grasshoppers, ants, mon
keys, elephants and many other things that
have not been introduced into our cuisine.
The pure white salt of commerce is the one
article in the nature of food that they are all
glad to get
On some of the islands of the Malay archi-
pelago there are hundreds of natives whose
only industry is to collect the edible birds
nests that are esteemed a great dainty by the
Chinese. They woslldn't dream Of eating them
themselves and they think the Chinese must
be very peculiar people to use that sort of
food.
There are a number of tribes in Africa
whose chief riches are their herds of cattle,
but who never drank drop of cows milk in
their lives They think the milk of their
herds is for calves and not for human beings,
and they are disgusted at the idea that any
body should consider it a proper article Of
food. A few tribes nenr the great lakes think
that it is q spectacle worth seeing to look at
the missionaries milking cows and drinking
the milk
The Esquimaux near Iittleton island once
discovered a supply of bread and salt port
that DR.. Kane had cached and they pro
ceeded to enjoy feast at the white mems OK
pense. They liked the salt pork and did dot
leave morsel OF it. This was probably The
first chance they had ever had to vary the
monotony of their meat diet They nihbled
the bread a little, promptly pronounced it
failure, and told DR.. Kane afterward that
they would as soon swallow SO much sand.
A tribe living not far from Port Moresky,
New Guinea, that think boiled snakes are to
be preferred to roast pig draw the line at
sugar. When they saw DR.. Chalmers, their
first white visitor, sweetening his tea one
morning they asked him for some of his salt.
Dr. Chalmers told them that it was not salt,
but they were incredulous, and SO he gave
some sugar to one of the natives. "He began
eating it," says DR.. Chalmers, "and the look
CT disgust on his face was worth seeing; he
rose up, went out, spat out what he had in his
mouth, and threw the remainder away"
Then he told the crowd what horrible stuff it
was, and they were satisfied to take his word
for 1t without trying it themselves